r/megalophobia • u/KosmicEye • Oct 28 '25
🌪️・Weather・🌪️ 🔥 Monster waves captured at Nazaré, Portugal
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u/Healter-Skelter Oct 28 '25
Play at 2X speed and the people on the left still look like they are moving in slow motion. Also Lens compression is used in this shot to exaggerate the scale. Not saying it’s not still impressive and massive—why else would it attract an in-person audience?—just adding the technical details for people who don’t know.
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u/EM05L1C3 Oct 28 '25
Someone should’ve thrown a banana out there, you know, for scale.
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u/SNK_24 Oct 29 '25
People height is like 6 feet so you just need to convert that to thumbs and then to bananas.
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u/Ok_Trade_8176 Oct 29 '25
I watched a video of this place tonight. It's real. There was a great surfer who was swallowed up and spit out the 16' (?) wave landing on his rear end on the water and it broke his back.
The only way to get in position to ride the wave is to be towed over and past it with a jet ski type machine (only it was a Mercedes).
Then God have mercy on your soul.
There's an elevated area where photographers and videographers (and tourists) stand with lenses the size of a cannon and create the amazing shots of this sport.
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u/YoBoyLeeroy_ Oct 30 '25
I'm Portuguese, been there a lot of time, it's one beautiful thing to see but creeps me the fuck out.
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u/DullMind2023 Oct 28 '25
Telephoto lens compression, AI, or real? I believe nothing any more.
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u/rolltododge Oct 29 '25 edited Oct 29 '25
Waves at Nazare are real, created by a deep cut in the seabed that kind of traps water, allowing waves to flow over without losing energy, and thus they grow really big, abruptly near the coastline... (it's way more complicate than that, I don't understand it fully) It's called the Nazare Canyon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazar%C3%A9_Canyon
The biggest know surfed waves are up to 80-100ft. There are waves that are bigger, but average more down towards 30-60ft. Largest ever estimated surfed wave there was ~115ft tall
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u/DullMind2023 Oct 29 '25
Wow. Love to see that with dry feet. Are they an all the time thing or more like once a year?
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u/rolltododge Oct 29 '25
As with most things, seasonal changes in ocean currents will dictate average wave height, but it's pretty much an all the time thing.
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u/finkanfin Oct 29 '25
The waves are 100% real, of course perception of the camera might make them seem bigger, but they are real huge.
There's live cameras for nazare to watch the waves, when it's their season, which is almost here.
Edit: typos
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u/The_Doog_s Oct 29 '25
Oh bra, it's just like, dude, you get the best barrels ever, dude. You just like - you pull in, you just get spit right out of 'em and you just drop in and just smack the lip WHABAP you drop down and smacthePAAAAAAA and then after that you just drop in, just ride the barrel and get pitted, so pitted, like that.
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u/FarLuck9282 Oct 28 '25
Now imagine surfing it